French artist Jean-Marc Côté, along with others, were asked to draw what they envisioned the world would be like in the year 2000 at the turn of the century, for the En L’An 2000 series ahead of the Exposition Universelle (1900). They depicted scientific advances and a total of 87 were known to be produced including the Stirrup-Cup, which appears to be a flying machine used by someone to get drinks, as well as humans racing on fish-like creatures under the ocean.
These cards were printed in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, with them being first on paper as cigar box inserts, and later as postcards. The postards themselves were never distributed, but writer Isaac Asimov did manage to acquire a set, and later featured them in his nonfiction work Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000.
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